Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:

> I changed my "LANG" to "ta_IN.UTF-8" (Tamil + India + UTF-8), and some
> other configuration settings. The "Monospace" font in Gnome-Terminal and
> XFCE Terminal, has got replaced by some font which is not constant-width.
> Text selection, and spacing, of Tamil script on Firefox, have become ugly.
> I suspect that these problems are being caused by the locale file.
>
> Could anyone fix the locale file, as I am not familiar with this
> format? I will with the details of the language, and the script. I am
> using Debian Etch, and the included "/usr/share/i18n/locales/ta_IN"
> appears to be carelessly written.
>

Not sure if this will solve your problem, but does installing
ttf-tamil-fonts you in any way?

raju
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* Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> 2007-09-10
> Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> > I changed my "LANG" to "ta_IN.UTF-8" (Tamil + India + UTF-8), and some
> > other configuration settings. The "Monospace" font in Gnome-Terminal and
> > XFCE Terminal, has got replaced by some font which is not constant-width.
> > Text selection, and spacing, of Tamil script on Firefox, have become ugly.
> > I suspect that these problems are being caused by the locale file.
> >
> > Could anyone fix the locale file, as I am not familiar with this
> > format? I will with the details of the language, and the script. I am
> > using Debian Etch, and the included "/usr/share/i18n/locales/ta_IN"
> > appears to be carelessly written.
>
> Not sure if this will solve your problem, but does installing
> ttf-tamil-fonts you in any way?

I already have it installed. Maybe the bugs are in "ttf-tamil-fonts", rather
than in the locale file?

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